The shuttering of beloved Echo Park rehearsal and recording complex Bedrock marks the loss of yet another small business amid the area's increasing gentrification.
In 2001, L.A. producer-composer Jon Brion, of Fiona Apple/Kanye West/Paul Thomas Anderson renown, recorded his major-label debut. It didn’t go very well.
“We’re losing the foundations of being able to make art in L.A.,” Hoffmaster said. “To have this place taken from us is just, ugh.“In 2009, when Kamran V, now 43 , and Phil Feinman, 36, opened Bedrock in a former jewelry factory just south of the 2 Freeway offramp, the two were trying to split the difference between the free-for-all industrial warehouses downtown and the sleek Hollywood facilities where bands would practice for gigs.
Sure, the janky conveyor belt leading up the stairs to the second floor might rip your arm off if you weren’t careful. But there was a full-service gear repair service, equipment shop and a receptionist to help you out, free parking and a vending machine with cold beer if you knew which button to hit. You just had to dodge Eagles of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes throwing knives at a wall in the lobby.
Weezer guitarist Brian Bell had a room in Bedrock for years, and loved bumping into emerging acts that kept him on his toes. “I was living in Encino at the time,” he said via email, “and driving there gave me not only a place to crank up my amp but a place where I could feel the energy and anxiety of a community of up-and-coming bands before the industry homogenized them.”
Despite some break-ins and flooding, Bedrock survived the pandemic. But after just a few months reopened, the building’s owners told Kamran and Feinman that a broken rooftop AC unit had caused severe structural damage, making repairs all but impossible. Bedrock would have to evict everyone and close forever.
“I don’t believe that,” Kamran said of their landlord’s reasons for closure. The Standard Oil group owns a number of high-end commercial and residential properties in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. “We got an estimate from CBRE that said the opposite of that, and exactly what it would cost to repair it. The owners were the ones that didn’t maintain it and let it fall into deep disrepair.”
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